Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 729811 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-16   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Loving, Richard Perry - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Loving, Mildred Jeter - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Novels in verse Interracial marriage - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson : Hadley, Virginia, 1954 by Pinkney, Andrea Davis 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01628 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: School integration - Fiction School stories Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down.